More Proof of the British Police Being Unaccountable

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I remember when the whole policing issue was being debated within former Republican circles a few years ago. A few things that kept being said was that "we would be in charge of them and be holding them to account" and that "manners would be put on them". The bad apples would be gone and it would be a new era for us.

They couldn't have got it more wrong

People also need to realise that out of 180 recommendations by patten, 160 of them were drafted by none other than Sir Ronnie Flanagan!!

A few years have now passed since the irrelevants left Republicanism and pledged their support for the partitionist British Militia and so far they have failed miserably to do anything they said they would do.

• They aren't holding them to account. They have failed miserably on this part.
• They haven't put manners on them ( it's actually the other way round).
• The bad apples remain, in fact the British Police have been recruiting former RUC detectives who came out of early retirement.
• Collusion with their cronies in Loyalist groups is rife, which was proved during the year
  

And it certainly isn't a new era for us.

• Stop and search procedures have increased by over 245%.
• The RUC were able to bring in British Army special forces without even consulting the policing board.
• Raids are constantly being carried out.
• Republicans are constantly being arrested, harassed, assaulted, intimidated, gassed and threatened by the British police.
• Plastic bullets are still being fired at children

Another thing that was regularly said during the policing debates was that by entering the DPPs, they would have the opportunity to put awkward questions to the British police and challenge them on various issues.

We now all know that was complete crap, it seems that false promises were made in order to sell the deal to the grassroots.

Recent events have proved that they are unaccountable, former republicans are entering these toothless DPP talk shops and asking the British police questions, the British police in turn refuse to answer them because they simply don't have to!

They are not accountable to anyone other than Mi5

Here's an extract from this weeks Newry Democrat which proves my point

"Mr Burns cited several examples where he claimed policing was under question but the chief inspector declined to comment for legal reasons.

“I don’t want to talk about issues under investigation,” said Mr Cordner. "

It was also amusing to hear former Republican Colman Burns say the following

“The conclusion drawn by the people in South Armagh is that the PSNI are working to the same political agenda as the RUC did in the past,” Mr Burns said.

Are they only realising this now?

No doubt the irrelevants will ask me what my alternative is, my alternative to supporting British policing in Ireland is simple.......don't support it.

Given the recent upsurge in draconian policing being used against people like Sean and Annette Hughes, Tony Catney, Mairtin Óg Meehan, Marian Price, Gary Donnelly and numerous others, maybe the time is right for the irrelevants to withdraw their support for British policing in Ireland.

Considering that PSF now view Republicans as their enemy maybe it's too late, maybe they have gone too far to come back to Republicanism?